All Articles tagged confession

• Justice Commentaries
  May 28, 2019 EDT
  CONVICTIONS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
  John H. Blume

  This article attempts to illuminate the causes of wrongful conviction of persons with intellectual disability.

• Justice Commentaries
  May 28, 2019 EDT
  RELIABLE JUSTICE: ADVANCING THE TWOFOLD AIM OF ESTABLISHING GUILT AND PROTECTING THE INNOCENT
  James R. Acker

  This article attempts to cast a somewhat different light on the traditional domain of wrongful conviction scholarship and policy.

• Justice Commentaries
  May 28, 2019 EDT
  UNDER THE HOOD: BRENDAN DASSEY, LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENTS, AND JUDICIAL IGNORANCE
  Michele LaVigne

  This article analyzes the interrogations of Brendan Dassey and explains why the behavior of law enforcement in the face of Brendan’s communication deficits contributed to an involuntary, unreliable confession.

• Justice Commentaries
  December 17, 2016 EDT
  INNOCENCE PROJECT: DNA EXONERATIONS, 1989-2014: REVIEW OF DATA AND FINDINGS FROM THE FIRST 25 YEARS
  Emily WestVanessa Meterko

  This report offers a first-time comprehensive review of data collected by the Innocence Project on DNA exonerations.

• Justice Commentaries
  August 03, 2015 EDT
  GENDERING AND RACING WRONGFUL CONVICTION: INTERSECTIONALITY, “NORMAL CRIMES,” AND WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES OF MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
  Elizabeth WebsterJody Miller

  This article considers how gendered and raced biases play fundamental roles in creating the crime and suspect typifications that take hold and shape the practices of criminal justice system actors.

• Justice Commentaries
  August 03, 2015 EDT
  GENDERING AND RACING WRONGFUL CONVICTION: INTERSECTIONALITY, “NORMAL CRIMES,” AND WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES OF MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
  Elizabeth WebsterJody Miller

  This article considers how gendered and raced biases play fundamental roles in creating the crime and suspect typifications that take hold and shape the practices of criminal justice system actors.

• General
  March 23, 2015 EDT
  IT’S TIME TO CONFESS THAT BROWN V. ILLINOIS ISN’T WORKING: PURGING THE TAINT FROM THE SUPREME COURT’S ATTENUATION JURISPRUDENCE
  Meredith L. Dedopoulos

  This note dissects the Brown framework and examines how subsequent Supreme Court jurisprudence has modified this framework.

• Justice Commentaries
  October 16, 2014 EDT
  THE LIMITS OF DECEPTION: AN END TO THE USE OF LIES AND TRICKERY IN CUSTODIAL INTERROGATIONS TO ELICIT THE “TRUTH”?
  Dorothy Heyl

  This article argues that after People v. Thomas, police departments will need to exercise caution in conducting interrogations, and should not assume that any form of deception is permissible.

• Justice Commentaries
  October 16, 2014 EDT
  SEEKING JUSTICE, COMPROMISING TRUTH? CRIMINAL ADMISSIONS AND THE PRISONER‘S DILEMMA
  Robert J. NorrisAllison D. Redlich

  This article presents an experimental study of one particular tactic commonly used to secure admissions: the well-known Prisoner‘s Dilemma.

• Justice Commentaries
  June 11, 2013 EDT
  TAKING CONFRONTATION SERIOUSLY: DOES CRAWFORD MEAN THAT CONFESSIONS MUST BE CROSS-EXAMINED?
  Mark A. Summers

  This article focuses on the applicability of the Supreme Court‘s decision in Crawford v. Washington to one subcategory of party admissions--defendants‘ confessions--taken by police officers in the course of interrogations.

• Justice Commentaries
  March 04, 2011 EDT
  “THAN THAT ONE INNOCENT SUFFER”: EVALUATING STATE SAFEGUARDS AGAINST WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS
  Robert J. NorrisCatherine L. BonventreAllison D. RedlichJames R. Acker

  This article comprehensively describes and analyzes current state policy initiatives in several areas relevant to the prevention of wrongful convictions.

• Justice Commentaries
  March 04, 2011 EDT
  AN INVESTIGATION OF TOP-DOWN VS. BOTTOM-UP PROCESSING IN POST-APPELLATE REVIEW OF A CRIMINAL CASE
  Andrew M. SmithBrian L. CutlerKeith A. Findley

  This experiment examined the extent to which the knowledge that a case has passed pre-screening by an innocence project influences case reviewer judgment through top-down case processing.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  August 08, 2010 EDT
  WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS THEN AND NOW: LESSONS TO BE LEARNED
  James R. Acker

  Professor Acker's symposium remarks.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  August 08, 2010 EDT
  A CONVICTION INTEGRITY INITIATIVE
  Cyrus R. Vance Jr.

  Mr. Vance's symposium remarks.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  August 08, 2010 EDT
  FALSE CONFESSIONS
  Saul M. Kassin

  Professor Kassin's symposium remarks.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  August 08, 2010 EDT
  PROTECTING THE INNOCENT IN NEW YORK: MOVING BEYOND CHANGING ONLY THEIR NAMES
  James R. AckerCatherine L. Bonventre

  This article focuses on the findings and recommendations of the Final Report of the New York State Bar Association‘s Task Force on Wrongful Convictions.